Activities Lantern Night Osaka 2025 Mid Dec Osaka's annual lantern night event takes place for three days during December, and it sees thousands of LED lanterns coloring..
Food Dotonbori's Top Restaurants Veronica Carnevale A saying associated with Dotonbori is kuidaore, which means to go bankrupt after spending a large amount of money on food. Not surprisingly,..
Food Donburi Grand Prix 2026 Late Apr - Early May The Donburi Grand Prix will offer up a variety rice bowls piled high with toppings for visitors to choose from.
Beauty & Spa Sentos and Spas in Osaka Bonson Lam Osaka is the city where they work hard and play hard, but most of all, they know how to relax in one of the many local bathhouses...
Nightlife Summer Sonic Osaka 2025 Aug 16th - Aug 17th Summer Sonic is a three-day rock festival taking place at the same time in both Tokyo and Osaka.
Culture Amami Village Gary Luscombe A guide to the often overlooked villages of southern Osaka. An abundance of nature and history among the mountains where Osaka,..
Culture Tako-jinja Gary Luscombe Tako-jinja is a small shrine in southern Osaka close to the birthplace of Takamuko-no-Kuromaro. A largely forgotten figure, he was..
Activities Universal Studios Japan Welcomes Mario in 2021 Serena Ogawa Universal Studios Japan Osaka will open its Super Nintendo World in February 2021
